Joe Chill (DCAU)
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Joe Chill is a fictional character in the DC Comics Batman series. He is most famous for murdering young Bruce Wayne's parents (in different versions of Batman's origin story), thus making him indirectly responsible for Batman's existence.
Not much is known about Chill, except that he was a petty mugger who killed Wayne's parents while trying to take their money and jewelry. Chill panicked and ran when Bruce began crying and calling for help, but not before the boy memorized his features.
Although the DC Animated Universe has never seen fit to fully portray the fateful night in the alley, the Justice League Unlimited episode "For The Man Who Has Everything" has come the closest, including an actual appearance by Chill himself. The sequence is not completely accurate and canonical, however, as Thomas Wayne is not shot, but instead disarms Chill and starts punching him, much to young Bruce's delight (the scene is relived/reimagined when Batman is captured by the "Black Mercy" plant, an alien plant which traps its prey in the fantasy of their heart's desire). In an ironic twist of casting, Chill's one line in the episode ("We'll start with the pretty pearls around the lady's neck") is performed by none other than Kevin Conroy himself, the voice of Batman in Justice League Unlimited.
